Asakiyume mita

Beautifully drawn, and lovely to hear—thank you!

I'm pretty sure I occasionally hear Song Sparrows in my neighborhood, but the local song has too many quick and varied notes for my brain to feel sure that I recognize its pattern.

We definitely have more White-Crowned Sparrows, here—their song also varies with location, but it's less melodically complex (at least to my ears).

I think we probably also have more California Towhees and Dark-eyed Juncos than Song Sparrows—those are both also new world sparrow species, but they don't say so in their common names. Their songs are a lot less complex than those of Song Sparrows.

On rare occasions, I've also seen Spotted Towhees out here—now there is a sparrow that looks prettier than it sounds!

I just did a count at allaboutbirds.org—they list 43 species in the family of new world sparrows, Passerellidae! (Yay, birds! \😄/ )

But the prettiest birdsong I've so far heard in this region was that of a Bewick's Wren that lived in my previous neighborhood—allaboutbirds.org says their individual males can have from 9 to 23 songs each. Ahhhhhhhh! 😌